The quarterly mead journal is out! As usual, Yours Truly has a food pairing article and a legislative committee update. Lots of meadery profiles — many of these meads are available here at the Kookoolan Farms Mead tasting room! http://issuu.com/americanmead/docs/amma_14.3

Here’s a wonderful and easy mead-and-food pairing: pasta with Thai peanut sauce, paired with Redstone Meadery’s mango nectar. Lunch was literally these three items only: noodles. sauce from a jar. mead. Nothing else. Totally yummy. The lightness, sweetness, and fruitiness of the Redstone session mead pairs beautifully with the slightly-hot peanut sauce. Any jarred sauce would do. I used a local micro-product from Portland for the noodles: “Asian fusion” handmade pasta, allegedly flavored with ginger. If it was in there, it was overwhelmed by the peanut sauce. Any good-quality pasta would be fine.